There was a thread on this the other day. Get rid of the Radio Shack ICs and get the free ones that come with your oldest and cheapest CD or DVD player. If it sounds worse you know that is the problem.. The other way to approach this is to buy a very high quality Cardas Golden eference IC and use those. That will almost certainly fix the problem but you will be out about $850 for a meter. Not the highest price in the world but not cheap. You should alsp get Dream Weaver Speaker Cables from Jen Labs I use the cheapest but the all copper braid is a great cable and the higher up you go the better. This will solve the problem but the price of admission here is fair considering all the labor but firmly up there.
Treble harshness - interconnects as culprits?
Hi,
I have good quality speakers, highest quality integrated amp,a high quality transparent/ very responsive dac attached to a sonos (via coax) which connects to my music library on a nas.
The system is very transparent and overall great ... Except:
I have recently observed some sibilance and high frequency/ treble harshness on mainly live female vocal recordings like 1960 Edith Piaf, but also on more recent recordings. Even at very low amp volume levels.
The only components of poor quality are my speaker cables and my radioshack analog RCA interconnects between dac and amp (only RCA input). Could the interconnect cause this? Or do I have bigger system compatibility issues?
Thanks!!
I have good quality speakers, highest quality integrated amp,a high quality transparent/ very responsive dac attached to a sonos (via coax) which connects to my music library on a nas.
The system is very transparent and overall great ... Except:
I have recently observed some sibilance and high frequency/ treble harshness on mainly live female vocal recordings like 1960 Edith Piaf, but also on more recent recordings. Even at very low amp volume levels.
The only components of poor quality are my speaker cables and my radioshack analog RCA interconnects between dac and amp (only RCA input). Could the interconnect cause this? Or do I have bigger system compatibility issues?
Thanks!!